Ticket-holder.



BENJAMIN F. EMERY, OF THAYER, IOWA.

TICICE T-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 8, 1908.

Application led March 3, 1908. Serial No. 418,953.

To all lwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. EMERY, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Thayer, Union county, Iowa, have invented a new and useful Ticket- I-Iolder, of which the following is a specilication.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for holding and supporting a row of tickets, tape, and the like.

A further object of this invention is to provide means for preventing accidental unrolling or loosening of a roll of tickets.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of the complete device in position for practical use. Fig. 2 is a plan 0f the device shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a left end elevation of the device, the support being shown in section.

In the construction of the device as shown a frame is provided and is formed of a single length of bar metal preferably circular in cross-section. The central or body portion 10 of the frame is straight and the arms 11, 12 are formed on and extend laterally at right angles from ends thereof. Downwardly opening hooks are formed on the extremities of thev arms 11, 12. The hooks comprise vertical members 13, 14 at right angles to the arms 11, 12, horizontal` members 15, 16 at right angles to the vertical members and terminal members 17, 18 parallel with said vertical members. The terminal members 17, 18 are spaced apart from the vertical members 13, 14 a suflicient distance to admit a support 19 between them, which support may be the front end portion of a desk drawer. A roller 20 is mounted for rotation on a pin 21 set in and extending laterally from the central portion of the body 10 of the frame. The roller 20 occupies the central portion of the space between the body 10 of the frame and the adjacent face of the support 19. A stud 22 is mounted in the frame at the juncture of the arm 11 with the body 10 and rises therefrom parallel with the vertical member 13. A post 24 is mounted in the frame at the juncture of the arm 12 with the body 10 and rises parallel with the vertical member 14. A blade 25 is arranged between the post 24 and the vertical member 14 and is formed with trunnions or pivots 26 extending laterally from its upper end portion and journaled in said post and vertical member. The lower end portion of the blade 25 is beveled. An elastic band 27 is attached at one end to the arm 11 of the frame and is held in place by the stud 22 and vertical member 13. The elastic band 27 extends longitudinally of the frame beneath the roller 20 and crosses the upper face of the arm 12 beneath the blade 25 and the free end of said band depends beyond said arm. A roll 28 of tickets, or similar article or articles, is mounted on the roller 20 and is confined laterally between and by the frame body 10 and the support 19. The roll 29 of tickets, or the like, may be withdrawn under frictional resistance of the elastic band 27 engaging the lower portion of its periphery. As the roll of tickets becomes smaller the free end portion of the elastic band 27 may be drawn through a space between the blade 25 and the arm 12 for the purpose of tightening said band and increasing the tension thereof on the roll. It will be understood that the tension of the elastic band is maintained because of a gripping of the band by the blade 25 against the frame 12.

I claim as my inventionh 1. A ticket holder, comprising a frame formed on a single metal bar, said frame comprising a straight body, arms at right angles to said body, and hooks on said arms, the openings of the hooks parallel with the body, a stud centrally of and projecting laterally from said body, a roller on said stud, said stud and roller parallel with the arms of the frame, said roller adapted t0 receive and support a roll of tickets, an elastic brake attached to one of said arms and adapted to extend beneath the roll of tickets and across the other arm, and clamping devices adjacent the latter arm adapted to clamp the elastic brake thereto.

2. A ticket holder, comprising a frame formed with a body, arms on ends of said body, hooks on said arms, and a roll support on said body intermediate of said arms, an elastic brake, fixed at one end to one of said arms and extending across said roll support and the other arm, and means for adjustably engaging said brake.

3. A ticket holder, comprising a frame,

means for supporting said frame, a roll support on said frame, an elastic band fixed at one end to one end of said frame, blade supgether With an elastic band xed at one end to one arm and extending across the roller and across the opposite arm beneath said 15 blade, said band adapted to be engaged by ports at the opposite end of said frame, and a blade pivoted on the blade supports adjacent one end of said frame, adapted to engage said elastic band.

4. A ticket holder, comprising a frame said blade. formed With a body, arms at ends of said Signed by me at Des Moines, Iowa, this brfidy, hgoks on said arms, a stud on one enc; 26th day of February, 1908. o the od a ost on the o osite end o the body, blalde pivoted tophe post and BENJAMIN F' EMERY adjacent hook above one of the arms, a pin lVitnesses: extending laterally from the central portion THOMAS Gr. ORWIG, of the body, and a roller on said pin, tol S. C. SWEET. 

